James Murphy announces on Beats in Space that a DFA mixer is in the pipeline, currently being developed together with UK company Isonoe, and designed to challenge Bozak and other rotatory mixers. It's due for release in early 2012.

Here's a comprehensive walkthrough into the science of EQing, especially for the use of DJs, explaining how frequencies clash, the downsides of clipping and how to apply this knowledge to achieve a clear, undistorted mix.

"Kids dancing in crazy outfits to music that editorial page editors don't understand aren't automatically evil." Pasquale Rotella, chief executive of Insomniac, the production company behind the LA event, speaks out in defence of the "rave" via the LA Times.